Architectural project: Attaching a sketch

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Once you have familiarized yourself with the basics of AutoCAD LT, you can start applying your skills with drawing projects. One good skill to practice is attaching sketches you've made in order to incorporate them into your design. This video tutorial allows you to work on an architectural project by attaching a sketch in AutoCAD LT.

…In this video we will begin a drawing project that will put a…lot of the things you've learned in this course so far to use.…Open the floor plan sample file in the…chapter six folder and you'll see that it's blank.…I've already set the units to architectural and…I created a layer which we'll get to later.…Let's go ahead and attach an image of a sketch I made on a piece of paper.…Type I M for image, and press enter.…This opens the external references palette.…Up here, open this menu.…

Rather than clicking on the icon, click on the arrow.…And then choose attach image, and select this jpeg.…Click Open and then set relative path and…uncheck these three boxes so that the images are…attached at the origin point with a scale of one, and with a rotation angle of zero.…So, I made this rough sketch of a simple architectural plan,…I took a picture of my phone and emailed it to myself.…So you can do this sort of thing to…sketch your own apartment or house where you're living…and it will give you some good practice to…

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5/29/2014

Scott Onstott has been using AutoCAD for 24 years and has witnessed its evolution into the world-leading application for computer-aided drafting and design. You too can harness its power and start creating detailed CAD drawings, whatever your field: design, architecture, or engineering. In this in-depth course, Scott shows you how to draw precise, measured 2D drawings—the basis of design communication the world over. Then he shows how to create and modify geometry, layers, blocks, attributes, dimensions, and layouts, and finally, how to start sharing your drawings with others.